Here’s a picture of the Cable Car to the top of the Aguille Rouge.
Possibly over 20 years ago, I caught a chair lift to a point just below here, and was left by my companions; I fell and slide a long way. I was stopped by a very skilled woman, who skied down from above, and caught up with me and who dug her skis into the snow at a point where I was travelling at my slowest. I was somewhat shaken and didn’t say thank you properly. Now’s the time, “Thank You”. I was very lucky. …
On Immigration controls, it’s points, quotas or none! …
I wonder where the Clarion go their picture? Below is a link to the Clarion on the PLP’s waltz with the #hostileenvironment in Parliament. This law will allow the Home Office to criminalise EU citizens living in the UK. It should naver have been an option.
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I was playing with picture stylers over the weekend and had used deepart.io. They used to have a phone app, but that seems to have gone although I am trying to find out if it’s still around; anyway, here is my collection, once again from flickr, although it excludes some portraits.
I also found these people, Deep Art Effects, and now have the app. on the phone. …
Playing with Deepart made me wonder which of my pictures on flickr were the most popular. These are they, mainly in order; yes, the Danish Flag is first. The pictures from my trip to Bury Court are very well viewed. Make what you will of the rest. The pictures are below/overleaf … …
A couple of years ago, I wrote a precis of the McKinsey Quarterly article, “Distortions and deceptions in strategic decisions”. They started with a review of the way human bias can adversely impact strategic investment decisions illustrating it with a story about a mega-merger which failed. They conclude the article with,
Companies can’t afford to ignore the human factor in the making of strategic decisions. They can greatly improve their chances of making good ones by becoming more aware of the way cognitive biases can mislead them, by reviewing their decision-making processes, and by establishing a culture of constructive debate.
The first half of the article examines the propensity to optimism vs. perceptions of loss aversion and argue that portfolio management is a better way to evaluate the risk as lossess can be compensated by other success. I believe though that British management and particularly public sector management is very risk adverse; there is a higher fear of getting things wrong than getting things right although how we end up with Universal Credit, the Boris “vanity lard bus”, his water cannons and his other “erections”, I don’t know.
What made me remember the article was it’s listing of what they call tools to isolate any human bias to me most importantly
Another technique is to request that managers show more of their cards: some companies, for instance, demand that investment recommendations include alternatives, or “next-best” ideas.
I wonder how many of these lessons need to be applied to local authority planning decisions. Check below/overleaf for more …
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I found this on a post card at the Berlinische Gallerie, an activity not to be recommended.
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I have observed previously that the political centre of gravity in the European ex-dictatorships of both left and right is defined by the opposition to those dictatorships. So in Iberia there is a strong left and eastern Europe, a very weak one. Why I had not realised until last night that this antipathy applies to the Unions for those people who grew up in Eastern Europe, even it would seem by ,many Poles where the Communist regime was broken by a Trade Union. …
Here’s a glimmer of hope, Paul Coterill on his Medium account, in an article called “Hope for Revoke”, talks of Parliament changing the UK’s legal default from “No Deal” or more accurately whatever’s on the table on the 29th March, bit like a secret santa, to Revoking Article 50; I’d drop my support for a 2nd referendum in exchange for Revoking Article 50. …
Labour’s rules for Party Unit’s have a three month moratorium on “rescinding” a decision.
Using Google, I find this definition
rescind /rɪˈsɪnd/ verb
revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).
This would mean to me that changed circumstances and the review of a position that was not carried or made, would be permitted. … …